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Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors

This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, the government, and the relational identities for the people and others in nine Supply Bills read by him (2010 – 2018). This study was modelled upon Charteris-Black’s Critical Meta...

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Main Author: Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics (GLOCAL) 2023
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H Social Sciences (General)
JA Political science (General)
JF Political institutions (General)
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/1/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia.pdf
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https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala2022-proceedings/cala22Farrah-Diebaa/
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spelling my.iium.irep.1115152024-03-25T07:37:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/ Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa H Social Sciences (General) JA Political science (General) JF Political institutions (General) This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, the government, and the relational identities for the people and others in nine Supply Bills read by him (2010 – 2018). This study was modelled upon Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) and Sack’s Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) as frameworks. The findings showed that Najib Razak and the government played the role as a medical doctor while the people and others have been conceptualised as patients and pre-term babies, suffering from global economic downturn, Asian Financial Crisis, global economic recession, poverty and bribery. The people and others as patients have to depend on the government for health and recovery. This further emphasises the independent, heroic role played by the government and the weak, dependent role expected of the people and others. Through these metaphors, the people were reminded that without the government to treat and heal the people and other, it is impossible for the country to develop ‘healthily’. Therefore, the use of metaphors in the Supply Bills has served the predicative, empathetic, ideological and mythical purposes. Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics (GLOCAL) 2023 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/1/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/2/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa (2023) Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors. In: The GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022, 19th - 21st December 2022, SOAS University of London (Virtual Conference). https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala2022-proceedings/cala22Farrah-Diebaa/ 10.47298/cala2022.2-4
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JA Political science (General)
JF Political institutions (General)
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JA Political science (General)
JF Political institutions (General)
Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
description This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, the government, and the relational identities for the people and others in nine Supply Bills read by him (2010 – 2018). This study was modelled upon Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) and Sack’s Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) as frameworks. The findings showed that Najib Razak and the government played the role as a medical doctor while the people and others have been conceptualised as patients and pre-term babies, suffering from global economic downturn, Asian Financial Crisis, global economic recession, poverty and bribery. The people and others as patients have to depend on the government for health and recovery. This further emphasises the independent, heroic role played by the government and the weak, dependent role expected of the people and others. Through these metaphors, the people were reminded that without the government to treat and heal the people and other, it is impossible for the country to develop ‘healthily’. Therefore, the use of metaphors in the Supply Bills has served the predicative, empathetic, ideological and mythical purposes.
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author Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
author_facet Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
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title Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
title_short Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
title_full Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
title_fullStr Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
title_full_unstemmed Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors
title_sort treating and healing malaysia: a critical analysis of najib razak’s metaphors
publisher Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics (GLOCAL)
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/1/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia.pdf
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/
https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala2022-proceedings/cala22Farrah-Diebaa/
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